Wednesday 15th, evening Showcase: This was a special evening for us volunteers, and also for the Primate Handshake staff. All 21 members have freely given a month of their lives for one purpose – to pursue, through physical presence in three locations in Kenya, our skills knowledge experience and sheer dedication to tasks to help the [...]
Continue reading...13. July 2009
Monday 13th: At 4am our friends, the Colobus monkeys sang to wake us up. How nice. Today’s cook team were Emily, Ash and Luke, and they made us porridge like we’ve never had before on this trip. Ash produced a chilli flavour – great to wake to; Luke made a delicious traditional Scottish porridge; Emily made a [...]
Continue reading...11. July 2009
This was another day of teams dispersed about the area pursuing their tasks. Gaynor went in to Nanyuki with Jonathan to buy fresh provisions and then worked on the logistics and planning for the next few days. Laurence and the Video team continued to work on five separate video projects, which once edited will probably reduce to [...]
Continue reading...11. July 2009
Another early morning, waking to the forest orchestral harmonies. Today was a busy work day for the teams as they sat in front of their laptops writing up and editing the backlog of necessary refining work from Diani and the Colobus Trust, and from Ol Pejeta and the Sweetwaters Sanctuary. So…can’t report many interesting or funny [...]
Continue reading...10. July 2009
I woke at 4am…as did a couple of other light sleepers. The forest came alive with the most incredible sounds radiating out into our sleeping world. One special sound is probably what woke us. It sounded like a a cross between a gang of scrambler bike exhausts and a machine gun. The sounds took speedy [...]
Continue reading...8. July 2009
Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th July 2009 These next two days were spent on the road travelling from Sweetwaters in the Nanyuki area to Kakamega Forest near the Rift Valley. Being on the road, with no access to power, meant again we were unable to set up the satellite dish and have access to the internet for [...]
Continue reading...6. July 2009
A very early start at 6am for the film crew Mike and Rosie, who drove out on a safari to try to catch animals at their early morning routines. They saw a pair of black rhino, and also a white rhino, some gazelle and zebra. The film quality was good because by having the back [...]
Continue reading...5. July 2009
A 6am start and early breakfast for those of us who had booked a morning camel ride at the Nanyuki River Camel Camp. The early morning journey there gave us the gift of seeing a pair of white rhino, some elephants, wart hogs on the run, a herd of giraffe very close to the road, [...]
Continue reading...3. July 2009
Friday: A terrific start to the day…we all had a half hour lie-in, a lazy start and porridge for breakfast. Several people have noticed how they have lost some weight…waistbands not so tight, wobbly bits not so wobbly, and feeling very pleased that it was simply down to the healthy diet giving them more energy too [...]
Continue reading...1. July 2009
June has passed, we are in to the second half of the year, and the second half of the expedition. As if this isn’t a momentous enough thought, we volunteers are now in that amazing position where we live in a tented camp in the southern hemisphere, and commute to work at Ol Pejeta in [...]
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15. July 2009
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